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This quantity seeks to give ‘Germanic philology’ with its major linguistic, literary and cultural subdivisions as an entire, and to name into query the commonly used pedagogical department of the self-discipline.

A. A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1990. BAWDY Bawdy, meaning “naughty, sexually suggestive or obscene talk or behavior,” derives from bawd, a medieval term for a procurer, later a procuress of prostitutes. The term, recorded from the early sixteenth century, is essentially rooted in the underworld and its coded speech, 19 BAWDY double-entendres or sexual puns, current in bawdy houses or brothels. ” Bawdry was an earlier, now obsolete relative, defined by Dr.

K. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. Everyman’s Library. London: Dent, 1954. Mitchell, Bruce. An Invitation to Old English. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. Tacitus, Cornelius. Tacitus on Britain and Germany. Trans. H. Mattingly. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964. ” This equation of the most powerful swearwords with the most ancient word-stock is strictly a misconception, at best a half-truth, although it continues to be found in both learned and popular usage. S. federal judge, Frederick van Pelt Bryan, handed down a judgment in favor of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, noting that “Four-letter Anglo-Saxon words are used with some frequency” (cited in Craig 1962, 158).

It is a speculation that the consonants “b” and “f,” which are, respectively, bilabial plosives and bilabial fricatives, offer an effective vehicle for emotive release because of the physical release of air. As Otto Jespersen noted appositely of the others nearly a century ago: “Thus we have here a whole family of words with an initial d, allowing the speaker to begin as if he were going to say the prohibited word, and then turn off into more innocent channels” (1962, 229). See also: Flyting; Rhyme.